No more digital tuner for me

PabloTincho

Well-Known Member
I just add 2 more digital tuners to my collection, and I think is enough for a while.
1984 Hitachi Ft-5500 MKII modded, 5 gangs, the last good Hitachi tuner
1988 Denon Tu-800 modded, 5 gangs, the last good Denon tuner
2000 Sony ST-SA50ES modded, 6 gangs, Sony's last attempt at a serious home tuner.
These 3 tuners have automatic filters selection.

I dont think I need more digital tuners, I need a few analogs, also I need to set up the roof antenna, the tuner are connected to a dipole attached to the window, I know is sad, a waste of tuners

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Before you move over to hunting only analog, might consider swapping that SA50ES out for an SA5ES, if you get the chance... looks similar but it's a far better tuner. An Onkyo T-9090 or T-9090 II would fit nicely in that stack, too :)

John
 
Before you move over to hunting only analog, might consider swapping that SA50ES out for an SA5ES, if you get the chance... looks similar but it's a far better tuner. An Onkyo T-9090 or T-9090 II would fit nicely in that stack, too :)

John

The Euro version of the ST-SA5ES is better than the North American one, with quite a few differences. The most obvious one is the inclusion of RDS. I had one and it sounded superb, but it did have a small but annoying foible: it wouldn't completely switch to mono (there was MPX 'leakage'), meaning that there was a small but noticeable hiss remaining on weak signals. I don't know if this was a problem with just this sample, but the TIC reports a similar problem with the ST-S730ES, and that was a design fault.
 
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